Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic

by Alasdair Pettinger (Editor)

A superb anthology of some 50 travel-related essays, journal entries, letters, newspaper reports, and poetry by black authors from around the world. Includes material from the late 18th century to the present. Distributed by Continuum. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Alasdair Pettinger studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Essex, completing his PhD in Literature in 1988 while working as a civil servant in London. Since 1992, he has been based in Glasgow, working at the Scottish Music Centre and pursuing his academic interests as an independent scholar. He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Central Lancashire (2000), Nottingham Trent University (2004-2007) and the University of Liverpool (2010-2013).

He is the editor of Always Elsewhere (1998), and has published a number of essays reflecting his (overlapping) interests in travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti. His current projects include a study of Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland in the 1840s and a history of the word voodoo in English.

He also edits the Studies in Travel Writing website, which tries to keep up with developments in the field and offers occasional reflections of its own.